MCQs- life and works of T S Eliot

 MCQs- life and works of T S Eliot

1.       In which year was T. S. Eliot awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

a. 1945 b. 1948 c. 1955 d. 1960

Answer: b. 1948

2.       Which of the following is NOT a work by T. S. Eliot?

a. The Waste Land b. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock c. The Hollow Men d. The Great Gatsby

Answer: d. The Great Gatsby (This is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

3.       In which country was T. S. Eliot born?

a. England b. Scotland c. Ireland d. United States

Answer: d. United States

4.       Which literary movement was T. S. Eliot associated with?

a. Romanticism b. Realism c. Modernism d. Postmodernism

Answer: c. Modernism

5.       What was the name of T. S. Eliot's second wife?

a. Vivienne Haigh-Wood b. Emily Hale c. Valerie Eliot d. Esmé Valerie Fletcher

Answer: c. Valerie Eliot

6.       Which of the following is a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

a. "Do not go gentle into that good night" b. "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" c. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" d. "Because I could not stop for Death"

Answer: b. "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo"

7.       What was the title of T. S. Eliot's first book of poetry?

a. The Waste Land b. Prufrock and Other Observations c. Four Quartets d. The Hollow Men

Answer: b. Prufrock and Other Observations

8.       Which of the following works by T. S. Eliot was written during his conversion to Christianity?

a. The Waste Land b. Four Quartets c. Murder in the Cathedral d. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Answer: c. Murder in the Cathedral

9.       Which of the following is NOT a section of T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"?

a. Burnt Norton b. East Coker c. Little Gidding d. The Hollow Men

Answer: d. The Hollow Men (This is a separate poem by T. S. Eliot)

10.    In which year was T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" first published?

a. 1915 b. 1922 c. 1935 d. 1945

Answer: b. 1922

 

11.    What was the name of the literary journal founded by T. S. Eliot in 1922?

a. The Criterion b. The New Yorker c. The Paris Review d. The Atlantic Monthly

Answer: a. The Criterion (T. S. Eliot edited from 1922 to 1939)

12.    Which of the following works by T. S. Eliot was written in collaboration with Igor Stravinsky?

a. The Waste Land b. The Hollow Men c. The Rite of Spring d. The Cocktail Party

Answer: c. The Rite of Spring (This was a ballet with music composed by Stravinsky and a libretto written by Eliot.)

13.    What was the name of T. S. Eliot's play that explores the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket?

a. The Cocktail Party b. The Family Reunion c. Murder in the Cathedral d. The Confidential Clerk

Answer: c. Murder in the Cathedral

14.    What was the title of T. S. Eliot's last completed work, published posthumously in 1965?

a. The Waste Land b. Four Quartets c. The Elder Statesman d. The Cocktail Party

Answer: c. The Elder Statesman

15.    Which of the following is a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"?

a. "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" b. "April is the cruellest month" c. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" d. "The sun beats down and I lie down to doze"

Answer: a. "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper"

 

16.    What was the name of the literary group of which T. S. Eliot was a part, along with other writers such as James Joyce and Ezra Pound?

a. The Bloomsbury Group b. The Inklings c. The Imagists d. The Modernists

Answer: d. The Modernists

17.    What was the title of T. S. Eliot's essay in which he coined the term "objective correlative"?

a. Tradition and the Individual Talent b. The Metaphysical Poets c. The Function of Criticism d. Hamlet and His Problems

Answer: d. Hamlet and His Problems

18.    Which of the following is a collection of essays by T. S. Eliot?

a. Prufrock and Other Observations b. The Sacred Wood c. The Waste Land and Other Poems d. Four Quartets

Answer: b. The Sacred Wood

19.    In which year was T. S. Eliot appointed as a director of the publishing house Faber and Faber?

a. 1925 b. 1935 c. 1945 d. 1955

Answer: b. 1935

20.    Which of the following works by T. S. Eliot was inspired by his visit to the Sistine Chapel in Rome?

a. The Waste Land b. Four Quartets c. Ash Wednesday d. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Answer: c. Ash Wednesday

21.    Which of the following is a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

a. "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" b. "I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be" c. "We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men" d. "In my beginning is my end"

Answer: a. "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?"

22.    Which of the following is a theme explored in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets?

a. The aftermath of World War I b. The nature of time and the human experience of it c. The search for identity in modern society d. The decay of modern civilization

Answer: b. The nature of time and the human experience of it

23.    Which of the following was a major influence on T. S. Eliot's writing?

a. Romanticism b. Classicism c. Realism d. Naturalism

Answer: b. Classicism

24.    Which of the following is the title of T. S. Eliot's first collection of poems?

a. The Waste Land b. Prufrock and Other Observations c. Four Quartets d. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Answer: b. Prufrock and Other Observations

25.    Which of the following is a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"?

a. "The winter evening settles down / With smell of steaks in passageways" b. "April is the cruellest month" c. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" d. "The sun beats down and I lie down to doze"

Answer: b. "April is the cruellest month"

26.    Which of the following literary movements did T. S. Eliot participate in?

a. Modernism b. Romanticism c. Realism d. Postmodernism

Answer: a. Modernism

29.    What was the title of T. S. Eliot's first play?

a. Murder in the Cathedral b. The Cocktail Party c. The Family Reunion d. Sweeney Agonistes

Answer: a. Murder in the Cathedral

30.    Which of the following is a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Four Quartets"?

a. "I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be" b. "In my beginning is my end" c. "The winter evening settles down / With smell of steaks in passageways" d. "We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men"

Answer: b. "In my beginning is my end"

 

31.    Which of the following poems by T. S. Eliot is considered a modernist masterpiece?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" c. "Ash Wednesday" d. "The Hollow Men"

Answer: a. "The Waste Land"

32.    What was the title of T. S. Eliot's most famous critical essay, published in 1919?

a. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" b. "The Waste Land" c. "Tradition and the Individual Talent" d. "The Hollow Men"

Answer: c. "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

33.    Which of the following is a common theme in T. S. Eliot's poetry?

a. The beauty of nature b. The joys of love and romance c. The emptiness and despair of modern life d. The triumph of the human spirit

Answer: c. The emptiness and despair of modern life

34.    Which of the following literary devices does T. S. Eliot use in "The Waste Land" to create a sense of fragmentation and dislocation?

a. Rhyme and meter b. Imagery and metaphor c. Allusion and quotation d. Personification and symbolism

Answer: c. Allusion and quotation

35.    Which of the following was a major influence on T. S. Eliot's poetry?

a. The Bible and Christian theology b. Greek and Roman mythology c. William Shakespeare's plays d. All of the above

Answer: d. All of the above

36.    T. S. Eliot was born in which country?

a. England b. Ireland c. United States d. Canada

Answer: c. United States

37.    What was the title of T. S. Eliot's first collection of poetry, published in 1917?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" c. "Prufrock and Other Observations" d. "Four Quartets"

Answer: c. "Prufrock and Other Observations"

38.    What was the title of T. S. Eliot's last major work, published in 1948?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "Four Quartets" c. "Murder in the Cathedral" d. "The Hollow Men"

Answer: b. "Four Quartets"

39.    Which of the following works by T. S. Eliot is a verse drama?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "Four Quartets" c. "Ash Wednesday" d. "Murder in the Cathedral"

Answer: d. "Murder in the Cathedral"

40.    Which of the following lines from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" suggests the speaker's sense of isolation and alienation?

a. "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" b. "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" c. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" d. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas"

Answer: c. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"

41.    What was T. S. Eliot's profession before he became a full-time writer?

a. Lawyer b. Doctor c. Banker d. Teacher

Answer: c. Banker

42.    Which literary movement did T. S. Eliot help to establish and popularize?

a. Romanticism b. Modernism c. Realism d. Naturalism

Answer: b. Modernism

43.    Which of the following works by T. S. Eliot was inspired by his conversion to Christianity?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" c. "Four Quartets" d. "The Hollow Men"

Answer: c. "Four Quartets"

44.    What was the title of T. S. Eliot's play, first performed in 1935, that explores the martyrdom of Thomas Becket?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" c. "Four Quartets" d. "Murder in the Cathedral"

Answer: d. "Murder in the Cathedral"

45.    Which of the following works by T. S. Eliot is considered a response to the devastation of World War I?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" c. "Four Quartets" d. "Murder in the Cathedral"

Answer: a. "The Waste Land"

 

46.    What was the name of T. S. Eliot's second wife, who was also his secretary?

a. Vivienne Haigh-Wood b. Valerie Eliot c. Mary Trevelyan d. Emily Hale

Answer: b. Valerie Eliot

47.    Which of the following literary magazines did T. S. Eliot edit?

a. The New Yorker b. The Atlantic Monthly c. The Criterion d. Harper's Magazine

Answer: c. The Criterion

48.    Which of the following poets was not an influence on T. S. Eliot?

a. Dante Alighieri b. William Shakespeare c. John Keats d. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer: d. Percy Bysshe Shelley

49.    What was the title of T. S. Eliot's first play, which was also his only commercially successful one?

a. "The Cocktail Party" b. "The Family Reunion" c. "Murder in the Cathedral" d. "The Confidential Clerk"

Answer: a. "The Cocktail Party"

50.    Which of the following works by T. S. Eliot is a collection of essays on literary criticism?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" c. "Four Quartets" d. "The Sacred Wood"

Answer: d. "The Sacred Wood"

 

51.    In which year did T. S. Eliot receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

a. 1948 b. 1956 c. 1962 d. 1975

Answer: b. 1956

52.    What was the title of T. S. Eliot's last major work, published posthumously in 1969?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" c. "Four Quartets" d. "The Elder Statesman"

Answer: d. "The Elder Statesman"

53.    Which of the following was not a common theme in T. S. Eliot's poetry?

a. Religion b. Love c. Death d. Nature

Answer: d. Nature

54.    Which of the following works by T. S. Eliot is a poetic drama that takes place in a seedy London neighborhood?

a. "The Waste Land" b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" c. "Four Quartets" d. "The Rock"

Answer: d. "The Rock"

55.    Which of the following literary devices did T. S. Eliot use extensively in his poetry?

a. Rhyme b. Alliteration c. Metaphor d. Onomatopoeia

Answer: b. Alliteration